EU Ministers Urge Steps Toward IMF Support

By

Riva Froymovich And

Costas Paris

March 31, 2012 10:16 a.m. ET

COPENHAGEN—European finance ministers urged a prompt decision on ramping up the International Monetary Fund's crisis-fighting resources, a day after they agreed to commit more funds to their own so-called firewall.

After two days of talks on efforts to enhance their response to the sovereign-debt crisis, finance ministers from the 27 member nations of the European Union and central bank governors said that despite signs of stability...